Park publishes study of children’s participation in robotics curriculum

Professor of Child and Adolescent Development Soyeon Park and her co-author recently published an article in the Korean Journal of Childcare and Education. Titled, “The effect of STEAM-based unplugged play activities using robots on the improvement of children’s creative and social personalities,” the study investigated whether participation in a robotics curriculum with play activities over five weeks can improve five-year-old children’s creative and social personalities. Findings revealed that children in the experimental group showed improvement in all domains of social personality and in three domains of creative personality, implying that implementing STEAM-based unplugged robotic activities in early childhood classrooms positively contributes to children’s development of creative and social personalities. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea grant funded by the Korea government.